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”A baseball stadium full of saints agrees more closely than any two of my friends on Twitter.” -Mike Elias on Catholic Feedback

Stay very close to the crib of this gentle Babe…If you love riches, you will find the gold that the three kings left there; if you love the smoke of honor, you will find that of the incense; and if you love the delicacy of the senses, you will smell the perfumed myrrh which perfumes the whole stable.” - Padre Pio, Letter to Erminia Gargani, 30 Dec 1918

#christmas #epiphany

“…at each stage the knowledge must be of a sort fitted to the learners and conceived as reaching its perfection within their universe of thought during a distinct period of their development, instead of laying the foundations of a single sphere of knowledge which would grow in a continuous and uniform way until it became the science of the adult, where alone it would attain perfection.” -Jacques Maritain, The Stages of Education

#education

“Read to him because it will remind him that you love him.” -Troubled by Rob Henderson

#reading

“Prestigious universities encourage students to nurture their grievances, giving rise to a peculiar situation in which the most advantaged are the most well equipped to tell other advantaged people how disadvantaged they are.” —Troubled by Rob Henderson

#luxury beliefs

“…your impotence, the seat of His omnipotence.” -Padre Pio, Letter to the Ventrella sisters, Oct 1, 1917

#padre pio #weakness

“Historically, the wilderness was seen as the place of untamed nature which is the home of the devil. Christ went to meet him there for 40 days and when monks and hermits went out to the desert, it was not so much as we might think today, to escape the city, but rather to engage in spiritual battle in the wilderness, the lair of the enemy.” -David Clayton

#wilderness

“My daughter, unite your tears and sufferings also, to those of your father [Padre Pio], and like a bunch of chosen myrrh, the symbol of crucified and resigned love, let us offer it to Jesus.” -Padre Pio’s letter to Assunta di Tomaso, 27 October 1919

#Padre Pio

"And finally, don't think of what you are unable to do but rather, think of what you can do and do it well, for the love of the Bridegroom." - Padre Pio, Letter to Maria Galgani, 10 Dec 1917

#Padre Pio

"Guard against finding a reason to upset yourself" - Padre Pio, Letter to Maria Gargani, 10 Dec 1917

#Padre Pio

"Previously, your zeal towards yourself and others was extremely good, and I don't deny it, but it had this defect: It was rather sad, rather fussy and uneasy. Now I clearly see that the zeal is continually being purged of all this. I see it is sweeter, more benevolent, graceful, peaceful and uplifting." -Padre Pio, Letter to Maria Gargani, 29 Nov 1917

"All of John 9 is a catechesis on Baptism. Everyone is like the man born blind. We are born in the darkness of sin. John shares this theology with the Qumranites. Everyone is born a son of darkness, but can become a son of light by washing with the Spirit-infused waters. Later Christian theology will call this darkness original sin. But, original sin is not a guilt. As Jesus says, "neither this man nor his parents sinned." Rather, original sin is an absence - the absence of the Holy Spirit who brings us light and life." - Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Dr. John Bergsma

"Scholars of yesteryear, who made John into a late fiction created from the influence of esoteric forms of Greek Platonism, were very far off the mark." - Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Dr. John Bergsma

"The Lord is with you, my daughter, not as a judge but as a loving Father, a beloved Spouse. He is with you, patient, suffering, eager, crushed and trampled upon, heartbroken, in the shadows of the night, and even more so in the desolation of Gethsemane. He is associated with your suffering, and associates you in his own. This is the whole fact of the matter, this is the truth and the only truth." -St. Padre Pio, Letter to Margherita Tresca, 20 August 1918

“Advertising sacrifices is a poor way to make them.” -By Love Refined by Alice von Hildebrand

“Instead of creating a mental ledger in which you constantly total up Michael’s offenses, try to dissolve each one of them in your love as it happens.” -By Love Refined by Alice von Hildebrand

Your sexual union is a feast of love, and like any feast, it must be lovingly prepared. -By Love Refined: Letters to a Young Bride by Alice von Hildebrand

#Love

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